{"id":116858,"date":"2026-05-17T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116858"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:42:07","slug":"116858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116858","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2026\/05\/defensive-gun-uses-occur-about-five-times-more-often-than-criminals-use-gun-in-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defensive Gun Uses Occur About Five Times More Often Than Criminals Use a Gun in Crime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates there were\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bjs.ojp.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/cv21_sum.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approximately 330,000 violent victimizations involving a firearm in 2021<\/a><\/strong>. That same year there were\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3887145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated 1.67 million defensive gun uses<\/a><\/strong>. That is defensive gun uses are 5.06 times more than firearms used in crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defensive Gun Uses Occur About Five Times More Often Than Criminals Use a Gun in Crime The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates there were\u00a0approximately 330,000 violent victimizations involving a firearm in 2021. That same year there were\u00a0estimated 1.67 million defensive gun uses. That is defensive gun uses are 5.06 times more than firearms used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116858\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116859,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116858\/revisions\/116859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}